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Sachinnihcas2000 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Difference in words...

What is the difference between a phrase and an idiom?

Which one is better for formal conversation?
  

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A phrase is practically any group of words. Here are some phrases: for us in the garden may have been ready my friends and I having said that what they wanted almost never Phrases have to be used in all kinds of conversations. You can't help but use phrases.

— CalifJim

  • A phrase is practically any group of words.
  • Here are some phrases: for us in the garden may have been ready my friends and I having said that what they wanted almost never Phrases have to be used in all kinds of conversations.
  • You can't help but use phrases.
  • ___________________ An idiom is a group of words that does not mean literally what the words mean: to kick the bucket ~ to die There are idioms that are very informal and idioms that are less informal.
  • You can hardly speak at all, formally or informally, without using some idioms.
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A phrase is practically any group of words. Here are some phrases:

for us
in the garden
may have been ready
my friends and I
having said that
what they wanted
almost never

Phrases have to be used in all kinds of conversations. You can't help but use phrases.
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An idiom is a group of words that does not mean literally
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Please elaborate the below sentence in details. I could not make out what it means.

"There are idioms that are very informal and idioms that are less informal. You can hardly speak at all, formally or informally, without using some idioms."

Thanks,
Sachin Patel
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Idioms are so commonly used that it is almost impossible to avoid them when speaking naturally.

CJ
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